And
Jehovah said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and
hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of
the house of Jehovah, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entrance of
the house, with every egress of the sanctuary.

in that ye have brought in foreigners,
uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to
profane it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and
they have broken my covenant, to add unto all your abominations.

Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates
of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall slay the burnt-offering
and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister
unto them.

Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and became a
stumblingblock of iniquity unto the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up
my hand against them, saith the Lord Jehovah, and they shall bear their
iniquity.

And they shall not come near unto me, to execute the office of priest unto me,
nor to come near to any of my holy things, unto the things that are most holy;
but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have
committed.

But the priests the Levites, the
sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel
went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me; and they
shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord
Jehovah:

And it shall be that, when they
enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen
garments; and no wool shall come upon them, while they minister in the gates of
the inner court, and within.

And when they go forth into the outer court, even into
the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they
minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other
garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments.

And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to mine ordinances
shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my
appointed feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

And they shall go in to no dead
person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for
daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile
themselves.

And the first
of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every oblation of everything, of
all your oblations, shall be for the priest: ye shall also give unto the
priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.